Post Doctoral Research Associate in Communities and Environmental Change

The School of Geography at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) is seeking to appoint a postdoctoral researcher to play a significant and central role in a major new UKRI £3m multi-disciplinary project entitled “Resilience of Anthropocene Coasts and Communities (RACC): assessing and responding to urban and post-industrial coastal risks”. The project is part of a larger research programme and will investigate the interlinked risks of climate change, coastal flooding and erosion, and the UK’s historic waste legacy to develop coastal community and ecosystem resilience. Please see this link for more details on the RACC project.

For this advertised post, we require a postdoctoral researcher to work with communities and policy makers to explore and co-develop policy options and practical actions that will build resilience, and to identify potential co-benefits for people and places. This researcher will work alongside four other postdoctoral researchers working broadly on pollution, risk data synthesis, natural capital accounting and socioeconomics within the same project.

The focus of the advertised role will be on community engagement, leading on the delivery of public engagement activities with multiple communities and the development of resilience strategies. This will involve data collection from interviews, surveys, participatory creative workshops, literature reviews etc. The researcher will lead or support the production of key outputs, such as peer reviewed publications, policy briefs, a “Community Atlas”, artworks, and museum exhibitions within accessible community venues to enhance the engagement with the project results. All of these outputs will be developed in collaboration with relevant experts e.g. academics, policy experts, artists, curators.

This is a 37-month fixed term appointment. The salary for this will be £40,223 per annum. 

About the School

The School of Geography at Queen Mary University of London is internationally recognized for its theoretically informed, empirically grounded and politically engaged research, and remains one of the top departments for Geography and Environmental Sciences in the UK (REF 2014).

About Queen Mary
At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

Our reformer heritage informs our conviction that great ideas can and should come from anywhere. It’s an approach that has brought results across the globe, from the communities of east London to the favelas of Rio de Janeiro.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

Benefits
In return, we offer 30 days’ leave per annum, access to a pension scheme, a season ticket loan scheme and competitive salaries. We also offer enhanced family friendly leave, and an on-site nursery at the Mile End campus. You will also work with a friendly team, with personal development opportunities.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability.

Informal enquiries should be addressed to Dr Andy Russell at a.russell@qmul.ac.uk 

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